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developed), its secondary branches long, once or twice dividing and 

 leafy-bracted throughout with reduced leaves. Peduncles and pedi- 

 cels hirsute with yellowish- white dark-jointed hairs. Calyx 7-9 

 mm. long, the lobes lanceolate or narrowly ovate, acuminate, serrate 

 (with not or scarcely callous-tipped serratures), hirsute, especially 

 proximally. Corolla: the posterior lip 2-3 mm. long, 2-3 mm. 

 wdde, arched, the two lobes united and hooded, but not to apex 

 (leaving a narrow aperture into hood); anterior lip 8-10 mm. long, 

 6-7 mm. wide, narrowed at base, hooded over f length (sac strongly 

 upcurving against hood); externally and within slightly pubescent 

 about base. Filaments very short or none. Anther with the two 

 sacs separated on two arms of the connective, each about 1.6-1.8 

 mm. long; posterior sac 1.2 mm. long, yellowish, opening through- 

 out, fertile, concealed within hood; anterior sac short, orange-yellow, 

 sterile, projecting into the orifice, the club-like dark connective- 

 arm serving as a lever as in F . scalaris. Style nearly 2 mm. long. 

 Capsule 4 mm. long, broad-globose, rounded, pubescent with gland- 

 less and some gland-tipped hairs. Seeds .6-.7 mm. long, oblong, 

 obtusish, ridge-angled, brown. 



Type, swale, "Balsillas," on Rio Balsillas, altitude 2000-2100 

 meters, collected in flower and fruit August 3, 1917, Rusby & Pen- 

 nell 721 , in Herb. New York Botanical Garden. From the same 

 swale as 710, F. scalaris. 



Swales, at an altitude of 2000 to 2100 meters. Subtropical zone 

 of eastern slope of Cordillera Oriental, in Huila. 



21. RUSSELIAJacquin. 

 Russelia Jacq., Enum. PL Carib. 25. 1760. 



Type species, R. sarmentosa Jacq., of Cuba. 



1. Russelia colombiana Pennell, sp. nov. 



Her]), or shrubl^y below, diffuse, reaching 5 feet long. Stem 

 6-angled below, sharply 4-angled above, glabrous or with sparse 

 pubescence. Leaves in threes, the upper opposite, ovate, 5 cm. 

 long, 3 cm. wide, truncate at base, strongly acuminate, sharply 

 serrate-dentate with ascending teeth (bracts lance-ovate, coarsely 

 toothed), glabrous nearly from the first, green, with brown wax dots 

 on upper surface. Inflorescence much elongated, of axillary cymes. 

 Cymes hirtellous, 5 15-flowered. Calyx 4 mm. long, with brown 

 wax dots, its lobes narrowly ovate wdth caudate pubescent tips 

 nearly equaling the length of the body, slightly pubescent. Corolla 

 red, 10-11 mm. long, its lobes 1.5 mm. long, the posterior united 

 |-f their length, externally glabrous, within on anterior side pubes- 



